Thrive as a leader

my executive coach profile

I coach high-performing leaders on their leadership development. To my coaching I bring deep psychological expertise and extensive business and organisational experience, including my own C-suite leadership background.

Leveraging this, I support leaders across a wide range of leadership topics such as growing their effectiveness and remaining skilful under pressure. I also coach neurodivergent leaders. My clients recognize my ability to quickly focus on critical issues while maintaining a calm, warm, and gentle presence. And confidentiality is always at the core of my coaching practice.

I receive supervision from one of the most renowned senior executive coaches in London, a quality assurance for my work. My global executive coaching footprint spans multi-cultural leadership contexts from Shanghai via India and Europe to New York City. I am based in Stockholm, Sweden.

my professional background

I previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at one of Sweden’s largest publicly listed companies. I reported directly to the CEO and worked closely with the Board of Directors. Prior to that, I held corporate development positions in the consumer goods industry, including at The ABSOLUT Vodka Company. Later, as a Director and Nordic management team member in Operations, I led multiple large-scale change programmes across multiple countries. Earlier in my career, I spent seven years in international strategy consulting. Since then, I have built leadership and advisory experience across more than a dozen industries.

I also draw on ten years of clinical experience as a therapist. This background brings depth to my executive coaching, grounding my work in a nuanced understanding of the human mind and behavior. It also enables me to support leaders as they navigate both personal and professional challenges.

why choose me

As your executive coach, I sit at the intersection of C-suite leadership experience and psychology. This gives me a unique perspective in my coaching. In a psychologically safe yet challenging environment for leadership growth, I offer insight-driven coaching and action-oriented learning, making your enhanced leadership behaviours stick over time.

And perhaps you too have experienced the loneliness of leadership? As senior leaders, we often lack trusted peers with whom we can confide, making an external and confidential sounding board invaluable. As your coach, I offer that rare space. Together, we challenge assumptions, provide you with candid feedback, and reflect on your and your team’s behavioural dynamics, free from politics and any sense of hidden agendas.

welcome to coach no. 9

I hope this website inspires you to thrive as a leader. And that it gives you a sense of the services I offer. Reading my clients’ experiences from working with me will give you a clearer picture of the variety of executive coaching I provide.

Worth noting is that executive coaching is performance-driven, focused on improving a leader’s effectiveness in their current role. And it is used for your and your organization’s benefit. This distinguishes executive coaching from other forms of personal and professional development.

In our initial contact, I will outline how the coaching programme is structured and introduce the frameworks and tools that can be applied (such as 360 assessments, MBTI, and interviews). I will also clarify how I maintain a clear distinction between coaching and therapy in all executive engagements.

The fact that you are here already shows curiosity. This is an excellent starting point for you to thrive as a leader in executive coaching.

Welcome aboard Coach No. 9 – your journey to enhanced leadership!

Patrik Andersson
Executive Coach & Founder at Coach No. 9
Credential ID: EC248

“Patrik, to summarize, I would like to congratulate all the executives and leaders who will now be able to benefit from your future work as an international Executive Coach certified by me and the ICC.”
– Lars-Eric Uneståhl, Ph.D.

Lars-Eric is one of the world’s most prominent coaches. In 2010, named one of the fifty most influential people in Sweden over past 50 years.

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Companies for which some of my clients have worked or work:

Ericsson, PwC, Hilti, Hitachi Energy, McKinsey, FIFA, UBS Switzerland, On Running, Oracle, Boliden, BCG, Adidas, STADA, DanskeBank, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, KKR and Deutsche Börse Group.

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Professional and academic background

LinkedIn profile

Business	Coaching	Degrees
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Operations Developm	Transition Coaching	Transition Coach
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Strategy Consultant	Individual Therapy	Registered Therapist
Communic Strategist	Family Counselling	Behavioural Scientist
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